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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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ofwhich makes ones mouth water, there are anumber of Virginia and Maryland receipts, bothold and new, and of old-fashioned English andScotch receipts of approved excellence, to-gether with others that have been tried in thebalance and not found wanting, derived fromFrench, German, Italian, and Russian sources,and from New England and the Middle States.For general and popular use, and for use hyall those who would combine elegance of ta-ble style with excellence of table provender,this unrivalled symposium of creature com-forts can not be too enthusiastically com-mended. 1 Dancing, and Its lielations to Education and SociaoLife. With a New Method of Iiistrucrion, including:a Complete Guide to the Cotillion (German), with 250Fijrures. By Allen Dodavoktii. Illustrated. 12mo,Ornamental Covers, pp. 284, ^1 50. New York: Har-per and Brothers. 1 J7ie l^/irirat/ed Cook I>ook and IToNsekeepers Guide.By Mrs. Washington. 12mo, Water-proof Cloth, pp.G48, $2 00. New Y^ork: Harper and Brothers.
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HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Vol. LXXIL FEBHUAEY, 1886. No. CCCCXXIX. THE BRITISH NAVY. By sir EDWARD REED. WHEN timber gave place to iron andsteel in the coiistiuction of warships, the naval possibilities of Great Brit-ain became practically illimitable. Priorto that great change, the British Admiral-ty, after exhausting its home supplies ofoak, had to seek in the forests of Italy andof remote countries those hard, curved,twisted, and stalwart trees which alonesufficed for the massive frame-work of itsline-of-battle ships. How recently it hasescaped from this necessity may be in-ferred from the fact that the presentwriter, on taking office at the Admiraltyin 18G3, found her Majestys dock-yardslargely stored with recent deliveries ofItalian and other oak timber of this de-scription. And liere it may not be inappropriatefor one whose earliest professional studieswere devoted to the construction of wood-en ships, but whose personal labors havebeen most largely devoted to the iron era,t

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